Removing Subpanels - Is there an upgrade safe solution?

[aigalli]

There have been several threads raising the issue of removing standard subpanels from various modules. Is there anyone who has managed to achieve this with the solution being upgrade safe? The administrative overhead of re-editing the layoutdefs.ext.php files after each rebuild etc. (they are overwritten on each occasion) is unacceptable.

Your help would be appreciated.

[mikesolomon]

There have been several threads raising the issue of removing standard subpanels from various modules. Is there anyone who has managed to achieve this with the solution being upgrade safe? The administrative overhead of re-editing the layoutdefs.ext.php files after each rebuild etc. (they are overwritten on each occasion) is unacceptable.

Your help would be appreciated.

I edit custom/Extension/modules/<MODULE>/Ext/Layoutdefs/custom.php

unset($layout_defs['Accounts']['subpanel_setup']['bugs']);

The above code removes the bugs subpanel from Accounts

[aigalli]

Thanks for the info - I followed your approach but found that although the subpanels were removed the following warning message appears before the listing of the remaining subpanels:

Notice: Undefined index: module in /var/www/html/SugarCEdev-Full-5.0.0c/include/SubPanel/SubPanelDefinitions.php on line 340

Can you throw any light on this?

ps At least this approach appears to be upgrade safe - I just need to get to the bottom of the warning message.

Thanks

[mikesolomon]

Thanks for the info - I followed your approach but found that although the subpanels were removed the following warning message appears before the listing of the remaining subpanels:

Notice: Undefined index: module in /var/www/html/SugarCEdev-Full-5.0.0c/include/SubPanel/SubPanelDefinitions.php on line 340

Can you throw any light on this?

ps At least this approach appears to be upgrade safe - I just need to get to the bottom of the warning message.

Thanks

I don't get a warning

Have you tried a quick repair?

[aigalli]

Yes, I performed a Quick Repair.

What I have noticed is that I have several (4) _override.xxx.php files for subpanel layouts reside in the <sugar-root>custom/Extension/modules/<Module Name>/Ext/Layoutdefs/ directory. When I create my custom.php it appears that these _override files are causing the warning messages.

I should add that these _override.xxx.php files appear to be auto-generated each time a rebuild etc is run.

Not sure why they are being generated.

Any guidance would be appreciated.

[mikesolomon]

Yes, I performed a Quick Repair.

What I have noticed is that I have several (4) _override.xxx.php files for subpanel layouts reside in the <sugar-root>custom/Extension/modules/<Module Name>/Ext/Layoutdefs/ directory. When I create my custom.php it appears that these _override files are causing the warning messages.

I should add that these _override.xxx.php files appear to be auto-generated each time a rebuild etc is run.

Not sure why they are being generated.

Any guidance would be appreciated.

I would try deleting those files and doing another repair

[SugarDev.net]

Those files actually serve as the basis for 1 custom file, containing all the contents of those files.

You should turn off notices. It's the Sugar way. There are lots of notices in the application, I can't grasp why you left it enabled??

[aigalli]

Many thanks,

I deleted the _override.xxx.php files and created my custom.php file with the required unset commands. Performed Quick Repair & Rebuild and all is working as desired in an upgrade safe manner.

Oh yes! Notices have been turned OFF in the php.ini file.